Track By Track
DESIREE Chooses Her Top Tracks
At CRSSD Festival in September we followed DESIREE into the Chapter One vinyl pop-up and asked her to select…
Q&A
JKS – “The Importance Of Silence Is Underrated”
We caught up with JKS to put him through the paces of the quick-fire Q&A.…
News
Music Production For Women (MPW) Has Announced A Free 2 Day Course
Music Production for Women (MPW) has announced a two-day Women in Music Tech Summit on October 19th and 20th…
News
Ableton Launches Move: A Portable, Standalone Instrument for On-the-Go Music Creation
After various mystery marketing campaigns, the wait is over. Move from Ableton is here and it’s a long awaited…
Gear/Software
Audiomodern Soundbox Review: The Kontakt Killer?
Upstart plugin developer Audiomodern is challenging the hegemony of Kontakt with its new sampler, Soundbox. Is Audiomodern Soundbox good enough to dethrone the Native Instruments mainstay?
Attack Store
The Secrets of Dance Music Production
The world-leading book on dance music production. Comes with samples too.
Max for Live: Knob Studio
Knob Studio offers dynamic waveform manipulation and parameter mapping capabilities.
The Producer’s Manual
Everything you need to take a mix, from initial recording to final master.
Max For Live: Chance Engine
Add controlled yet random fluctuations to your most important parameters
Max For Live: Mouth Play
Unconventional vocal shaping with a brass model or FM oscillator source
Replicants – Elektron Analog Rytm Sample Pack
Electro sounds for the Elektron Analog Rytm. Free your spirit.
News
Cubase 7 Announced
Steinberg has announced the latest update to its hugely popular Cubase DAW.…
Beat Dissected
Dark Berlin Techno
The latest of our step by step drum programming tutorials takes inspiration from Berghain, Ostgut Ton and the darker sounds…
News
Hot Tempered: Jamie Jones Speaks Out
Hot Natured man responds to perceived criticism of chart success.…
Q&A
Erol Alkan
The 6 Music, Trash and Phantasy man discusses Bowie, building sites and 1960s French horror movies.…
Beat Dissected
Main Room House
The latest of our step by step drum programming tutorials focuses on main room house. Create a real peak time…
Top Tracks
Breach
Having made his reputation as a blue-eyed soul singer, Ben Westbeech is forging a fine parallel career under his…
Introducing...
Tone of Arc
No 19 Music’s ‘electric blue etheric tornado of energy’ introduces himself and explains what his music’s all about…
News
Ableton Live 9 Features Leaked
We still don’t have a release date, but a leaked video of Live 9 reveals some of the new…
The Breakdown
Tensnake – ‘Coma Cat’
Attack’s composition expert Oliver Curry examines the melodic elements which help make Tensnake’s 2010 single ‘Coma Cat’ a…
Tutorials
Vocal Chopping & Pitching
We outline some of the most effective techniques for integrating sampled vocals with your track.…
News
Win Roger Sanchez Tickets
We’re offering two lucky readers the chance to see Roger Sanchez DJ at London’s Ministry of Sound.…
Interviews
Jordan Peak
Quickly rising through the ranks of the UK underground with releases for house heavyweights Tsuba, Robsoul and Morris/Audio, Jordan…
Beat Dissected
Mystik Dubstep
The legendary Digital Mystikz crew provide the inspiration for our latest guide to drum programming. This old school dubstep beat…
Passing Notes
Polyrhythms
Polyrhythms in dance music are an amazingly simple way of adding complexity to your tracks. Dance music theory expert Oliver…
Interviews
Zed Bias
We chat with the bass music pioneer about forging your own path and showing respect to your peers.…
